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" Here's the thing I've learned about ideas: It's your job to have them. "

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" When I lived in Louisiana, 'Django Unchained' was shot at my neighbor's house. They shot a Sly Stallone movie in my gym. "

" Even people who despise ego and aspire to humility, who plan to be humble once they are successful, are worried that actually enacting those beliefs would sentence them to a life of obscurity or weakness or failure. "

" We want things to go perfectly, so we naturally tell ourselves that we'll get started once the conditions are right or once we have our bearings, when, really, it would be better to focus on making do with how things actually are. "

" Our facts aren't fact; they are opinions dressed up like facts. Our opinions aren't opinions; they are emotions that feel like opinions. Our information isn't information; it's just hastily assembled symbols. "

" The essential idea of Stoicism in my interpretation is, you don't control the world around you, you control how you respond. At 19, that's very empowering. "

" Bloggers are lazy and greedy. "

" If you need to fudge the facts a little bit to make your narrative work, there is nothing anyone can do to stop you. "

" If you run a business that isn't cutting edge or doesn't naturally stick out of the crowd, it's your job to be different and get attention. "

" The process for finding, creating, and consuming information has fundamentally changed with the advent of the web and the rise of blogging. "

" My neighbors don't care that I'm an author. It's inherently ego-inhibiting. "

" You know what's better than building things up in your imagination? Building things up in real life. "

" Work hard, take it seriously, embrace your ambition. And when you're not doing that, do something - whatever it happens to be - that taps into the part of you that makes you forget about all the rest of it. "

" I don't play videogames and generally think that online activism is a giant waste of time. "

" Like pretty much every other ambitious person, I always figured I'd eventually move to New York. It is, at this point, half-dream and half-obligation for people trying to do big things. It's the American Dream inside the American Dream. "

" Dr. Drew Pinsky changed my life. "

" In Los Angeles and other cities, being around immigrants is inspiring. They are touching the American Dream and reminding you how much you take it for granted. "

" It angers me to see armed defenders at the bottom of Lost Cause statues, adding a renewed threat of violence to icons that are themselves part of an ideology of violence and intimidation. "

" If you're shameless enough, you can sell anything. "

" The risks of speaking extemporaneously are apparent the first time you wing it and promptly put your foot in your mouth. "

" Understanding how the media actually works is critical. Because editors depend on ignorance and media illiteracy to ply their trade. The fact that many readers expect fact checking, editorial oversight, and ethics actually makes it easier for the media to be lazy. "

" In 2007, I went to work in Beverly Hills as an intern at The Collective, a talent management agency. I'd been scouted for the job because of a blog I'd started in college and because the blogger-turned-author I worked for, Tucker Max, was producing a project with the company. "

" If the media is a farce, why should you be the only one stuck with rules and restrictions? "

" Online journalism has always had a sourcing problem. From using unverified 'anonymous tips' to repeating whatever rumor or speculation people are chattering about, the general ethic is, 'We'll publish just about anything.' "

" Leveraging community intelligence and making connections is a key component to being a growth hacker. "

" Don't move to New York. Find your own city and your way. "

" As I discovered in my media manipulations, the information that finds us online - what spreads - is the worst kind. It raised itself above the din not through its value, importance, or accuracy but through the opposite: through slickness, titillation, and polarity. "

" The news is notoriously inaccurate, and our memory of it is even worse. "

" It's your job to find a release and an outlet for the stress and the feelings. Never forget: the crazy stays at home. "